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0 pointsdgellow26d ago0 comments

They aren’t smart, they approximate language constructs. They don’t have believes, ideas, etc. but have a few rounds of discussions with any LLMs and you see how they are probabilistic autocompletes based on whatever patterns from rounds of discussions you feed them

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lxgr26d ago

At what point does autocomplete stop being "just autocomplete"?

Clearly there's a limit. For example, if an alien autocomplete implementation were to fall out of a wormhole that somehow manages to, say, accurately complete sentences like "S&P 500, <tomorrow's date>:" with tomorrow's actual closing value today, I'd call that something else.

dgellowOP26d ago

You can call it however you want. The point of using the term autocomplete is to make the underlying technology relatable and remove the mystic from it. In any case, your alien autocomplete wouldn’t be an LLM if it can predict the future

> At what point does autocomplete stop being "just autocomplete"?

Every single discussion on the internet is a repeat of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki%27s_wager it seems…

lxgr26d ago

> The point of using the term autocomplete is to make the underlying technology relatable and remove the mystic from it.

I think it fails to do that. It's the wrong level of abstraction. Or is it helpful to model an ISA as the individual atoms making up a CPU implementing it?

> Every single discussion on the internet is a repeat of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki%27s_wager it seems…

If you don't like that, why amplify it by throwing around known unhelpful categories?

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dwaltrip25d ago

I use LLMs vastly differently from the actual auto-complete in my phone's messaging app. The comparison doesn't seem very informative. You can't do much with it.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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lxgr26d ago

At what point does autocomplete stop being "just autocomplete"?

dgellowOP26d ago

> At what point does autocomplete stop being "just autocomplete"?

Every single discussion on the internet is a repeat of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki%27s_wager it seems…

lxgr26d ago

> The point of using the term autocomplete is to make the underlying technology relatable and remove the mystic from it.

I think it fails to do that. It's the wrong level of abstraction. Or is it helpful to model an ISA as the individual atoms making up a CPU implementing it?

> Every single discussion on the internet is a repeat of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki%27s_wager it seems…

If you don't like that, why amplify it by throwing around known unhelpful categories?

1 more reply

dwaltrip25d ago

I use LLMs vastly differently from the actual auto-complete in my phone's messaging app. The comparison doesn't seem very informative. You can't do much with it.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse